Sentences with phrase «operated by the school system»

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Lunch Lessons, LLC, a school food systems consulting group operated by Chefs Ann Cooper and Beth Collins, provides assessment services for school districts.

In the wake of a resolution passed this weekend by the Representative Assembly of NYSUT, the UFT will recommend that the city's Teachers» Retirement System (TRS) suspend any new investments with New Mountain Capital and union - busting Wall Street financier Steven Klinsky, whose Victory Inc. operates charters schools in New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois.

And their revised strategy of operating public schools under contract with public school districts was flawed by an underestimation of the political resistance they would face and their inability to control costs or quality within the public system.

DPS's new SchoolChoice enrollment system minimizes favoritism, fosters integration, and increases demand for high quality schools by using the same process to place students in most schools, including charters and district - operated schools.

In Utah, which has the fastest - growing school - age population in the United States, a task force studying educational reform has found «an education system locked into a network of operating procedures by a multitude of traditions, decisions, practices, and attitudes which have evolved slowly over the years,» and has recommended 27 steps «to dislodge or alter some of the procedures.»

Fortunately, many countries have different types of school systems operating side - by - side within their own borders.

Alternative systems, competing across the board with government - operated schools, seem to have stimulated the latter to be more efficient (as measured by cost) and more effective (as measured by outcomes) than systems in countries where no such competition exists.

Mayor Muriel Bowser presides over this dual system, where the traditional D.C. Public Schools are run by a chancellor and the parallel sector of independently operated charter schools is answerable to D.C.'s Public Charter SchoolSchools are run by a chancellor and the parallel sector of independently operated charter schools is answerable to D.C.'s Public Charter Schoolschools is answerable to D.C.'s Public Charter School Board.

Yet schools and school systems casually waste scarce talent by operating on the implicit assumption that most teachers will be similarly adept at everything.

Evidence gathered by the Schools Food Trust in 2009 from secondary schools, indicated that half the schools were already operating a cashless Schools Food Trust in 2009 from secondary schools, indicated that half the schools were already operating a cashless schools, indicated that half the schools were already operating a cashless schools were already operating a cashless system.

New Orleans overhauled its public school structure by transitioning to a system where nonprofits operate schools and government regulates the system.

Their realpolitik theory was that doing so would cost the government so much money that it would eventually prefer to operate the schools under a unitary, integrated system, instead of paying for two comparably financed systems side by side.

The for - profit companies that operate some charter and online schools take the idea a step further by arguing that private business models are more efficient than public school systems.

To those who say that we don't have the capacity to grow enough new schools, I say that's because we have a system that was mistakenly built a century ago to populate schools by geography, to keep schools open in perpetuity, to homogenize offerings, and to own and operate all public schools in a designated area.

«And by allowing those charter schools to operate free of some of the mandates that might otherwise apply we provide an opportunity for educators and others to operate schools that try new approaches, or try different approaches that might work for various student populations whose needs might not be served that well in other school systems.

Trainings will always be provided by an attorney with a strong background in education law and a complete understanding of how Kentucky's educational system is structured and how public schools operate.

Instructional and noninstructional personnel who are hired or contracted to fill positions that require direct contact with students in an alternative school that operates under contract with a district school system must, upon employment or engagement to provide services, undergo background screening as required under s. 1012.465 or s. 1012.56, whichever is applicable, by filing with the district school board for the school district to which the alternative school is under contract a complete set of fingerprints taken by an authorized law enforcement agency or an employee of the school or school district who is trained to take fingerprints.

None of the options school choice advocates promote — charter schools, voucher supported private schools, online schools operated by private companies — are part of a truly public school system.

The Banneker Blake Academy for Arts and Sciences, an all boys public charter middle school within the Baltimore City Public School System and operated by the Baltimore Education Trust, is seeking an administrative and instructional leader for a rigorous STEAM currischool within the Baltimore City Public School System and operated by the Baltimore Education Trust, is seeking an administrative and instructional leader for a rigorous STEAM curriSchool System and operated by the Baltimore Education Trust, is seeking an administrative and instructional leader for a rigorous STEAM curriculum.

Our state operates a public education system marked by the inequitable funding, which impacts access to qualified teachers, school leaders, staff, curricula, materials and facilities.

But the plan would also alter the politics of the city's education system by pulling the independently operated schools under the direct influence of a powerful labor group that has sought to limit charter expansion.

Aspire is also one of the highest - performing public school systems in California, operating public charter schools across the state with one specific goal - preparing urban students for college - encapsulated by its motto of «College for Certain.»

In this way, the general assembly established a relatively equitable system of financing school general operating expenses supported by a uniform system of local property taxation.

All initial teacher training places — including for School Direct — are advertised through a single application system, operated by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS).

When school leaders know this tendency exists, they can reframe data - based explorations of problems in an area of school functioning by focusing attention on how the school systems connected to that area are actually operating.

Students are eligible for the program if the student's resident district is not a school district in which the pilot project scholarship program is operating and the student satisfies one of the following conditions: the student attends a local public school that has received a grade D or F by the state's performance index score, the student is assigned to a community school but would otherwise be assigned to a qualifying school, the student attends a local public school that was ranked in the lowest 10 percent of public schools in two of the three most recent rankings and the public school was not declared to be excellent or effective in the most recent rating system, or the student is enrolling in grades K — 12 for the first time and would be assigned to a qualifying school as long as they are at least 5 years old by Jan. 1 of the school year.

Last year, the New York Daily News illuminated the murky language of the pre-K debate by explaining that «high quality» typically denotes public school system - connected programs involving certified teachers who hold Bachelor's degrees, and operate under a state - approved curriculum, as opposed to the Obama administration's pre-K system of choice, Head Start.

The Children's Trust is by statute (Section 125.901 (2)(a)(3)-RRB- required to allocate and provide funds for other agencies in the county which are operated for the benefit of children, provided they are not under the exclusive jurisdiction of the public school system.

PEFNC's «public charter school accelerator» program seeks in increase the number of charter schools, which are public schools funded by taxpayers but operate outside the traditional public schools system.

A new investigative series by Capital & Main digs into the impact that charter schools — which are publicly funded but privately operated — are having on the state's public education system.

«Systems elevate averages,» is the mantra by which the then - superintendent, Richard Ranallo, operated, by which he meant that a coherent, systematic approach helps individual schools achieve at higher rates than otherwise possible.

A majority of the charters overseen by the School Board operate their own enrollment systems and hold their own lotteries if more students apply than they have spots available.

The mission of the System of Education Service Centers is to improve student achievement in Texas by developing high quality services that enable schools to operate more efficiently and economically, and to support educators as they prepare the future workforce of Texas.

«But even as many parents have embraced the new schools, there's little evidence in standardized test results that charters are performing better than traditional schools operated by the Chicago Public Schools system, an examination by the Chicago Sun - Times and the Medill Data Project at Northwestern University hasschools, there's little evidence in standardized test results that charters are performing better than traditional schools operated by the Chicago Public Schools system, an examination by the Chicago Sun - Times and the Medill Data Project at Northwestern University hasschools operated by the Chicago Public Schools system, an examination by the Chicago Sun - Times and the Medill Data Project at Northwestern University hasSchools system, an examination by the Chicago Sun - Times and the Medill Data Project at Northwestern University has found.

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

As you are aware, the Illinois Center for School Improvement (Illinois CSI), operated by American Institutes for Research (AIR) on behalf of the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE), was created to coordinate the statewide system of support to provide identified districts with strategies for transforming schools performing below state standards.

Some evidence suggests that this pressure, coupled with the reality of operating a school or district on a limited budget, meant educators often began to focus more time on those tested subjects at the expense of others, like social studies, science, and the arts — a logical response to the incentives created by the accountability system and tough budget choices.

The food service program operated by the public school system in Springfield, Massachusetts, which has been lauded for its high participation rates, does not take the summer off.

Many charter schools had pre-existing teacher evaluation systems in place that differed from those adopted by the states in which they operate.

Though the voucher fight had been lost, charter schools, which receive government funding but operate independently of the public - school system (and are seen by conservative policy groups as a gateway drug to privatization) sprang up across the state.

TranZed embraces the journey experience of the student and incorporates it into the school's culture by aligning the school's beliefs and values with the look of the school building, the school's instructional approach, the mindset and behavior of the teaching staff, and the school's operating systems.

The draft legislation calls for a system of schools run by organizations that apply for the charters to operate them.

Charter schools are independently operated and free from some restrictions that govern traditional schools, including the need to abide by a school system's union contracts.

The students sued iParadigms, the company that operates Turnitin, a system used by secondary schools and colleges to evaluate the originality of students» papers.

Over the last three years, Apple's iPads and Mac notebooks — which accounted for about half of the mobile devices shipped to schools in the United States in 2013 — have steadily lost ground to Chromebooks, inexpensive laptops that run on Google's Chrome operating system and are produced by Samsung, Acer and other computer makers.

• Demonstrated ability to assist in the creation and implementation of core lesson plans in accordance to set curriculum rules • Efficiently able to handle student arrivals and departures by carefully logging them in and out of the school premises • Well - versed in assisting the school office with administrative tasks such as record - keeping and file systems development • Proven record of managing student behavior within the classroom and ensuring that any untoward incident in school hallways is handled with discretion • Exceptionally well - versed in distributing assignments and resources and assisting students in understanding concepts taught in class • Deeply familiar with operating and maintaining equipment such as projectors and computers to assist in teaching endeavors • Qualified to handle the meal counting system and supervise students during meals and outdoor activities to ensure their safety and wellbeing • Competent at monitoring student transition in hallways and communicating with teachers about student behavior concerns • Focused on observing students in class and during outdoor activities to determine any signs of discomfort or distress and effectively communicating feedback to the lead teacher

Butler Community College, Fort Hood, TX 2/2009 — 5/2012 Office Assistant • Assisted students with admissions by helping them fill out forms and arrange for necessary documents • Scanned and recorded all admission forms in the system, placing special focus on their accuracy • Ascertained that all office equipment was in a consistently running order, and performed preventative and regular maintenance on them • Assisted the school office with special events such as open houses and annual days • Performed clerical duties such as operating printers, scanners and copiers, and handled required data entry work

Iowa's Quality Rating System (QRS), is a voluntary rating system for child development homes, licensed child care centers and preschools, and child care programs that are operated by school distriSystem (QRS), is a voluntary rating system for child development homes, licensed child care centers and preschools, and child care programs that are operated by school distrisystem for child development homes, licensed child care centers and preschools, and child care programs that are operated by school districts...